coming together to >> sandra: fox news alert, more than 1900 people have died of the coronavirus and 24 hours. the highest death toll so far but despite that there are signs a strategy to battle this outbreak are working. good morning everyone, i am sandra smith. >> ed: i met henry. they are approaching 4,000 confirmed infections. this is the largest increase in coronavirus deaths in one day. all governors in both of the states to see some encouraging signs, the outbreak could be nearing its peak. the white house always, also saying data showing social distancing measures are working.

>> president trump: even during this painful week we see glimmers of very strong hope and this will be a very painful week. and it next week, at least part of next week but probably all of it. look, if one person dies, it's a painful week and we know that will unfortunately happen. this is a monster we are fighting. but signs are that our strategy is totally working. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage for you this morning. david lee miller is in new york city. we begin with dr. anthony fauci, good morning and welcome. thanks for being here this morning. >> it's good to be with you. >> sandra: so to use the president's own words, we are battling a monster. where do we stand against the fight against covid-19 this morning? >> as you correctly reported,

the number on of deaths on a given day continue to increase. and at the same time, seemingly paradoxically but not, we are starting to see some glimmers of hope because the deaths generally lagged by a couple of weeks behind what's fueling the outbreak, namely the number of new cases in the number of hospitalizations. so at the same time we are seeing an increase in death, like typically what we are seeing now from new york, over the last few days there have been a stabilization and a decrease in the hospitalizations and admissions to intensive care and of the requirements for intimations. that means that, as we get further on beyond this week we should start to see the beginning of a turnaround which is a good sign. so you know, it's very sobering to see the increase in deaths and we predicted over the weekend that this would really be a bad week. and it is, it's going to be a bad week for deaths. but driving that and ahead of that is a fact that we will

start to see the beginning of a turnaround. so we need to keep pushing on the mitigation strategies because there is no doubt that that is having a positive impact on the dynamics of the outbreak. >> sandra: dr. fauci, i want to follow up on that because we have focused so much on new york because it's been at the epicenter of this crisis. dr. birx warned on saturday that there may be other hot spots emerging such as pennsylvania, colorado or even washington, d.c., and some parts of the west coast. so where are your areas of greatest concern as to where this may spread next. >> will you just mention several of them. one of you have a situation, usually a metropolitan area where there is a low level of cases, that's where you really need to intensify limite of the mitigation strategies, those are outlined clearly in the guidelines that we extended

their days until the end of april. when you look at new york, new orleans and detroit they are really in a very difficult situation as you've described very accurately, the number of deaths continue to go up. the other areas that you mentioned are potentially at that point where they are vulnerable to having an explosion and an escalation. we can prevent that by continuing the kind of medication that we are now doing generally throughout the country. so the hope is that those locations that you mention will not ever turn into new york or new orleans. that's what we are counting on by essentially as i said putting our foot on the accelerator of medication as opposed to saying, well, it looks like we may be turning the corner in some areas and therefore we should pull back. now is not the time to pull back at all, it's a time to intensi intensify. >> president trump: dr. fauci, you say it's not the time to pull back but there was some

breaking news overnight in "the washington post" are citing this as significant. the university of washington modeled and you and the president and others have cited that they are predicting about 60,000 u.s. deaths by the beginning of august. that's tragic, awful and still a number that's far too high but as you know, that's down in the last week is from a model that said 82,000 deaths, how significant is that number, and do you think it's because of the social distancing measures? >> there's no doubt in my mind it's because of the social distancing. i think people need to understand as i have always said to come time and time again at press briefings. when you have models that project but the number of deaths are going to be or the number of hospitalizations, a model is as good as the assumptions that you put into the model. when the assumptions are sometimes a little bit off, tweaked a little bit, you can get numbers that are far different than what the reality is. the thing that trumps models is

real data and as we continue to regulate real data, you go back and modify the models. so that's the explanation for what you just said, although one of the original models projected a 100-200000 deaths. as we are getting more data into seeing the positive effect of mitigation, those numbers are going to be downgraded as you have said. i don't know exactly what the numbers are going to be but right now it looks like it's going to be less than the original project >> ed: that could be very significant very positive. you recently expresd some support for the potential of a national lockdown. so since you say the models are being modified, and again, this is evolving all the time, but since it's been modified and it's changing, do you think it's now time to have the conversation to begin planning to start opening up pieces of the economy? >> well obviously we are doing that right now even as we speak.

you don't want to let up at a time that's premature, but right now we are clearly looking at, if we in fact are as successful as we hope to be over the extended 30 day period that the president announced several days ago. namely, extending the period of restrictions and guidelines to the end of april. if, in fact, we are successful it makes sense to at least plan what a reentry into normality would look like. that doesn't mean we are going to do it right now but it means we need to be prepared to ease into that. is a lot of activity going on. i was down in the white house and the roosevelt room last night until late at night discussing what we are seeing right now. >> sandra: dr. fauci you have learned that this could be seasonal and this could return. so where do we stand on the

vaccine this morning? >> the vaccine it is as i've been saying over the past couple weeks, we got into a clinical trial very quickly, faster than ever. a couple of candidates are now entered into a phase one safety trial. in all, you look at how long it takes to show safety and aiming in thimmunogenicity. if, in fact, there are outbreaks around the world and we can test the vaccine to show efficacy we may be able to truncate that time frame by a bit. but in general if you want to do it correctly it generally takes about a year or year and a half and i mentioned that a few months ago so it's more like a year to a third for a fourth of a year. >> ed: dr. fauci, as you know the president is very upset with the world health organization and things have been too soft on china, some of their predictions were too far off. he wants to freeze u.s. funding to the world health organization.

do you agree? >> you know to be honest with you i can't get involved in that kind of discussion. i just need to focus on what my job is, to see what we can do in this country and globally to put an end to this. the interaction between the w.h.o. is something that i really prefer not to get involved with. >> sandra: dr. anthony fauci, we know you are a busy man and we appreciate you giving us an update this morning. thank you. >> you're quite welcome. always good to be with you. >> ed: meet new york meanwhile may reach its peak demands today. andrew cuomo's that's a drop in new hospitalizations shows the spread of the virus slowing do down. >> we are changing the curve in that virus growth. you see that plateauing and that's because of what we are doing. if we don't do what we are doing, that is a much different

curve. >> ed: david lee miller is live in new york city with more. good morning david lee. >> good morning, ada. more people in new york city have died from the coronavirus than during 9/11. according to governor andrew cuomo the state saw its largest single day increase in the number of fatalities from the coronavirus but he cautioned it's a lagging indicator because those who succumb to have's often spent in lot of time in the hospital. the three day averages down that he says i says icu admissions are the lowest in 17 days. he said the new york state health department has approved antibody testing which will make it possible to determine who recovered from the virus which he says it's crucial for planning the restoration of the economy. >> how do you start getting back to work as quickly as possible? it comes down to testing. you are going to have to know who had the virus and who resolved the virus, who never

had it, and that's going to be testing. >> next door, connecticut in many ways mirrors new york sta new york state. hospitalizations are flattening out and new jersey which has the second-highest infection rate in the entire country after new york also saw spike in the number of deaths. the governor there is closing all state and county parks because of social distancing violations. lastly there is outbreak in new jersey this morning. according to published reports, scammers have set up a go fund the account and the family says they are not seeking donations. experts are warning that there could be an increase in the number of scams especially now because many americans will soon be receiving those stimulus checks in the mail. >> ed: a lot of people winning right now. sandra?

>> sandra: louisiana reporting its deadliest day at the governor of john bel edwards saying that there are early signs the curve may be flattening in his state. casey stegall is live with more on that. >> hey sandra, good morning. a lot of this is math, you had a very dramatic increase over a 24-hour. but when you average all of the numbers together they appear to be holding study which is why leaders say it appears that the numbers appear to be moving in the right direction for now. but not before the state earned a dubious distinction, as you know. we talked about this on monday. health officials say new orleans leads the nation and coronavirus deaths per capital. 582 people have died across the state, more than 16,000 have tested positive. at the convention center in downtown new orleans has been converted into a field hospital staffed by naval medical teams. officials say it has 1,000 beds and the ability to double

capacity. and as a more statistical data is being collected about the virus, you heard is also discussed a lot by officials in the briefing last night. one community in new orleans is being hit especially hard. >> we are seeing a disparity because right now slightly more than 70% of all of our deaths are among african-americans. who make up about 32%, or so, of the overall population of our state. >> in neighboring texas where covid-19 cases remain relatively low, the governor has ordered the state troopers to take control of the border between the two states, setting up checkpoints. they are making sure anyone coming into texas from the louisiana are self quarantining for 14 days. in dallas, the national guard has been quite busy converting the city's convention center into another one of those temporary pop-up hospitals

capable of holding 250 beds and the ability to expand. so far, texas has reported a little more than 8200 total cases of the virus statewide. 154 people have died here. sandra? >> sandra: casey stegall, thank you. >> ed: fox news alert, governor andrew cuomo trying to get people back to work as quickly and safely as possible and he says widespread testing will play a critical role. a closer look at a new test for antibodies only speak with dr. jeanette straight ahead. plus an nfl quarterback wants to connect americans with doctors who can answer their questions about coronavirus. jane is winston joins us live next hour to discuss a brand-new hotline he is funding. and another hot spot as detroit sees a surgeon cases while thousands of health care workers test positive. michigan democratic congressman

dan kildee is here. that's next. >> we are not close to the apex yet, we have not had that yet and up until we do, it's absolutely essential we continue to be aggressive. you doing okay?

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>> sandra: an update now from the u.k., prime minister boris johnson is listed in stable condition after spending a second night in the intensive care unit of a london hospital. he is receiving oxygen but not on a ventilator. he was admitted to the hospital on sunday, ten days after first being diagnosed with coronavirus. coronavirus. britain's foreign minister is temporarily taking over the prime minister's duties. ♪ >> people are taking it seriously and i think that's a good thing. to see the real benefits of the work we've done, it takes a few

weeks to know what that really means. that's why we did the stay-at-home order as early as we did. we were aggressive, we were on the front edge of setting that policy. >> ed: michigan's governor is now saying she could extend the stay-at-home order, that state among the hardest hit in america right now, nearly 19,000 confirmed cases and more than 800 deaths. also hundreds of health care workers know have tested positive for the virus as house democrats draft a potential fourth stimulus package that could top of a trillion dollars. joining snell to talk about all this is michigan congressman dan kildee. congressman, thanks for coming in, good morning. >> thanks very much for having me on. >> ed: we appreciate it. how is your state holding up this morning? >> well, it's tough, no two ways about it. i think many of us are experiencing this crisis in more personal terms. on monday i lost two friends, on

that same day, that i anew for over 40 years so i think for many of us this is coming home in a painful way. michigan is it tough state and i'm glad the governor acted when she did. i think the stay-at-home order is going to make a difference and is going to save lives and i think that's why the work that congress has done so far, bipartisan work thankfully he is giving people the financial tools they need to follow the medical guidance they are being given. staying at home is impossible if you can't support your family. >> ed: i'm certainly sorry for your personal loss, that sounds horrifying and everyone is going through this in some manner right now. sandra and i talked to dr. fauci and he was saying there are far too many losses in america right now but he seems somewhat optimistic about these university of washington models that a lot of people are following overnight changing to say by august a project there might be about 60,000 american deaths, far too many but

lower-than-expected. he said there was a meeting late at the white house last night that he had tended to talk about opening up the pieces of the economy. so what are your thoughts about whether we are starting to see, amid all this tragedy, some light at the end of the tunnel? >> it's hard to see it in the sense that in michigan we are right in the middle of it, we haven't hit the peak yet. obviously what we need to do is hope for the best and we hope those projections come true but we have to plan for the worst to make sure that we are prepared in case the models that have shown a higher mortality rate will potentially come to pass. we hope to god that that does not happen. so you know, i think the most important thing for us to do right now is continue to get the resources to the health care providers that they need to come up the ppe end ventilators. you put your finger on a very important point. it's the workers, those health care workers are taking an enormous risk right now and

many of them are becoming sick. and so we often talk about standing up an additiona additil hospital beds with the problem we have here in michigan is, we can create more beds but we have the personnel to staff them so we need to do what we can to flatten that curve to keep the pressure off. that's why the social distancing is such an important part of all of this. >> ed: when we talk about resources, we want to make sure all the medical workers have what they need to. the fear is also some of them may go home then and infect their family as you sort of pointed to, far too many of them testing positive for coronavirus. chuck schumer talked about giving a one-time bonus, $25,000 to some of these health care workers. talk about that specifically is part of a fourth stimulus package potentially but also big picture? there are some republicans saying, let's let the third package play out with small businesses and others before you rush in with the fourth ru one.

>> i think there is some sense to make sure we are putting a lot of energy into them fermenting the third phase but we have to be able to do more than one thing at a time. the administration's role is obviously largely implementation and especially around small businesses, making sure that those sba loans are being executed. we want to make sure there's enough money behind those loans so any business that qualifies is going to be able to get that help and that may require additional congressional action. but on the specific issue of hazard pay, i definitely would support that. i supported for our frontline health care workers for sure but there are also other workers that are in the essential functions that don't have the option of going home because they are in the food supply chain, for example. i think those people need some additional help and some additional recognition for the risks that they are taking in order to keep this country on

its feet. >> ed: obviously a lot of ground to cover, and we hope that you and your family are doing well after you lost two of your friends. you are in a state that's hard hit man as you said you haven't hit the peak yet. we are praying for you in the days ahead. >> thank you, stay safe. >> sandra: our best to the congressman. in the meantime congressman looking to get more money into the hands of our small businesses in this country to help them stay afloat during this crisis. you just heard from a democrat. we will get a g.o.p. reaction from colorado senator cory gardner. he will be our guest next hour. plus, big banks scrambling to keep up with outline requests as wall street futures are higher on the hopes of more stimulus. we are live for the opening bell, that is next. >> president trump: they are doing this where the loan goes out, it goes out to the small business but they have to, on one condition, they have to plad

pay their people, they have to keep their people on the payro payroll.

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but one thing hasn't: breakfast. and, if that feels like a little bit of comfort, it's thanks to... the farmers, the line workers and truckers, the grocery stockers and cashiers, and the food bank workers, because right now breakfast as usual is more essential than ever. to everyone around the world working so hard to bring breakfast to the table, thank you. >> sandra: trading is underway on wall street now this wednesday morning. you are looking at the dow up 279 points with a gain of 1.3%. colin mcshane, comaker of business after the bell is joining us now. if we notice this rally after we've seen a couple days of rallies and cleare clawed our wt of bear market territory.

what do you attribute these gains to this morning? >> one of the questions is whether or not this rally will last. this is now three days in a row, and it seems the thought for a lot of investors, they look at the medical side and we may be even talked about this yesterday. there are stabilization signs in certain areas that have been very, very hard-hit by the vir virus, maybe peeking and the market anticipates what's next and sort of trying to get ahead of that. we saw that right up until the closing bell and we really started to fade. a lot of the fate yesterday was oil, oil sold off aggressively into the close. it was back up three and a half in or almost 4% today, 20 or $25 per barrel. maybe if that stabilizes we can hold this rally in stocks. but you know the way the stock market is, it tries to look out ahead and even though we are in the worst of this medically, the market trying to get out and see what the future might hold her,

a little bit of optimism is starting to build. >> sandra: and also try to predict just how bad the current environment that we are in today is. jpmorgan's jamie dimon to predicting we are in a very bad recession. mayor bill de blasio on the long-term economic impact that this is having to new york, here. here is the error. mehr. >> sandra: while i can tell you what he's saying, the numbers are staggering and half a million new yorkers are already either out of work or soon will be. he compared that level of unemployment and economic stress, the only comparison he said you could make us the great depression. he said it scares him to death. there's a lot of different predictions on how we come out of this and when we come out of this, but you also have to assist how bad it is right now.

>> i think everybody premature grades, it's bad right now. to your first point, about how we come out of it and when we come out of it is a far larger and more important question. and the second quarter predictions we have seen, so in new york where we've been hit the hardest is now as things have been stabilized hopefully over the next few weeks and we start to kind of trying the corner medically, new york is the city that can come out of this the semester. that's one of the open questions that i think are out there, of course because of how important new york is financially, that will be one of the big questions in terms of their recovery. in the meantime, we have these conversations in congress about more money being allocated to small businesses, possibly stage iv in terms of a stimulus or relief bill. so that maybe hold us over a

little bit. that's another thing investors are looking at. maybe we have seen the worst of this with an emphasis on may be. we rely on government help and stimulus to kind of hold things study at least until we can begin that come back with her that six or eight weeks away or whatever that may be. >> sandra: a big part of this is the hope that we can get to the economy. that also sends minority leader chuck schumer and nancy pelosi to secure an additional $250 billion he's asking for, for the ppe loan program to make sure the small businesses get the money they need to. jpmorgan, just as an example of the big banks and what they are seen as far as requests as it's already received him nearly 400,000 loan requests worth $40 billion. so we will have to see if they are able to secure more money and more funding for those small

businesses. final thoughts as we see some optimism in the markets as we start out this new trading day? >> there has been some separation between the requests for the loans in the paying out. it appears to be the difference between the small and the big banks. the community banks to be a little bit more nimble in terms of processing their way through the loan requests and actually getting the money out to people , as they are getting those requests, whereas the bigger banks may be taking a little bit more time. i know just anecdotally from talking to small business owners has we have over the last few days, there's deftly some frustration there. they see the numbers we are all reporting and say, where's my money? so let's see how this plays out

over the next week or so. it's a gigantic program, a gigantic tas task but it's difft sometimes when you are the person waiting for the money at some of the small business owners still are. course they are happy to see more money being allocated. >> sandra: but there certainly some hope and some help for the small businesses trying to keep their workers employed through this. we will see you this afternoon for the "after the bell" show. thank you. >> ed: business across america now closing down after most states issues stay-at-home orders. william la jeunesse is live from the west coast newsroom with more details. >> there are two parts of the story. when can the state three open and who makes the decision, county by county, state by state or federal declaration of people go back to work on a certain date? those are the questions facing governors and mayors as some states show signs of peeking. now every model is different. this one from the university of washington shows some states already reached peak hospital demand. others expected to this week include ohio, new york. next week beginning easter sunday, at least 20

states could maximize their use of hospital beds and services and the remaining states come the following week and near the end of april. there are four general use, for mathematical models. in some more optimistic than others but also a wide disparity as to when each state could go back to work. president trump last night told sean hannity he would love to see a big bang, one beautiful open but he said it's possible there will be some areas not affected that much i come back sooner than later. others have said they are looking at the concept of opening sections or different sectors of the economy. geographically at different times. i spoke to the health director of l.a. county and she said that there will be gradual lifting of restrictions and that she doesn't see everyone coming back at one particular time. who decides that and what does it look like? here is mary eric garcetti from los angeles. >> this won't be a light switch

that suddenly comes on. not everyone comes out of their home simultaneously. >> these decisions about opening up the economy need to be made -- it doesn't make sense to make it at a national level, it should be made at a local level. >> so the bottom line is we won't see on may 1st everyone going back to work. you will likely see a stagger or soft open for restaurants and local businesses and also a restriction on how many people can go at any given time. also we are expecting from the cdc today some type of guidance on those individuals who survive the current iris and when they can go back to work and get tested. you will see a lot of testing at these businesses has we try to get people back to work without exposing everyone in a given area to the virus at one point in time. >> ed: absolutely. william la jeunesse.

>> sandra: a massive loss to the music world as we learned that legendary music and singer-songwriter john prine has passed away from the coronavirus. he had hits like hello from montgomery. his songs were covered by everyone from bonnie rate to johnny cash. john prine was 73 years old. he will be missed. >> ed: new york seeing its deadly estate yet from the coronavirus us hospitals across america prepare for a surge of patients. i'm coming up, we will speak with the doctor from the new york city hospital about what she's facing everything will day. plus, testing is seen as essential to restarting the economy as you just heard of. i would work on a widespread level? dr. jeanette recently got her blood tested and we talk about the process, next. >> you have to have that testing and you have to have the testing on a scale. you have 19 million people in

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>> new york state developed a department of health developed an antibody testing regimen. this tests the blood to determine whether or not you have the antibodies which means you had the virus and resolved the virus, which means you can get to work, you can go back to school, you can do whatever you want to. >> ed: that up of courses new york governor andrew cuomo on the antibody test we were talking about use to determine if someone has been infected with the coronavirus. he says it could speed up returning to some kind of normalcy. joining us now is dr. janette nesheiwat. good morning to you. how critical is it, and how does it work? as i understand it you try this

out? >> yes, i tried it out because i was part of a research project. being a doctor on the front line and taking care of coronavirus patients, swapping them, testing and diagnosing them i'm at a higher risk of acquiring the virus so i was part of a study and that's why i went and had the test on. what they did come a very simple easy process and it took less than 15 minutes. i went in and they did a finger prick and took a couple drops of my blood and put it on a pallet and put it in a little machine that looks like the size of a mini toaster. i got the results in about 15 minutes and with the tested was looked for two different antibodies called igg and idm. antibodies to see if i had the disease in the past and i recovered it it also checked for antibodies to see if i had it now. i was not a carrier but this is good information to provide to the community so that they can track where the virus is, what

it's doing and who it's affecting, that sort of thing. this is a test we need widespread for the nation because testing is what helps us to slow down the transmission and the spread of this virus to other people. >> ed: so how do you do that, do you think it has to be done state-by-state or to individual employers say we will figure out how to administer this and bring in medical professionals before you come indoors and go back to work? >> for example, different hospitals like at mount sinai are developing their own testing. the problem is you have to have fda approval of the tests because we don't want what we call false negatives. not to concern for false positives but it's worrisome if you have a test that doesn't have good accuracy or good sensitivity and specificity because you don't want to send someone home and say, you are negative, go on your daily duties, when they could potentially be an active exempt medic carrier and be spreading it. there are certain companies that

are creating this machinery and the tools to test and hospitals are also creating this technology on their own as well in conducting studies as we speak. >> ed: that's very interesting. new york has also been testing out this plasma treatment that a lot of people are wondering about. how promising is it? it's >> you know we care about remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine and all these promising medicines but this is the most positive treatment modality. when they test your antibodies, if you test positive for all previous infections in your blood in your plasma can be used to help potentially save a life to be injected into someone who is on a ventilator in the icu and struggling to survive. so if i had it, for example you would take my plasma in my antibodies and injected into another person and that would hopefully fight the infection in their body and hopefully help get them better quicker and

stabilize. that's a whole purpose in the goal is to help save lives and to help minimize the transmission of this virus in the community by identifying it early, isolating patients and contact tracing. >> ed: very interesting. we are glad you are healthy. thank you, doctor. >> sandra: thank you to the federal stimulus package for small businesses, one coffee shop is able to keep all of its employees on the payroll. the owner is here to share her experience. she will join us, next. and online tools you need. and now it's no different. because helping you through this crisis is what we're made for.

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he plans to vote on thursday on more federal funding for the small business loan program as one small business owner says her coffee shop received at stimulus loan. she says that it saved all the jobs at their company. amy wright as owner of biddy and bo's companies with locations in four southeastern states. she joins us now. good morning amy and welcome. >> sandra: good morning. thanks for having us. >> sandra: also tells about your experience applying for the small business loan. we've been hearing so much about the relief in the middle of this crisis for small businesses. what happen when you applied for it? >> we operate five brick-and-mortar coffee shops that are run by both developmental and intellectual disabilities. when they heard we had laid off all 120 of our employees with disabilities that they stepped in and they said if we want to

help you through the process. when the loans become available we are here to help you. very accessible, very seamless for us and just made up bringing our employees back to work so they could earn their paycheck again possible. >> sandra: how did your employees react to that? >> we are sharing the news later today through a resume call and we got our final funding yesterday. i'm very excited to share this with them because 80% of people with intellectual and develop mental disabilities are unemployed, that's a national statistic. most of our employees have never had a job before so when we had to temporary lay them off it was a very scary time. so i'm very excited to share with them that they will continue to earn a paycheck and contributing to our business. >> sandra: that's great news and i think we all need some hopeful good news right now. so did you have to shut the

doors to all of your coffee shops and a shut down operations entirely? >> we did. we made that decision about three weeks ago before the federal mandates. we decided for the health and safety of our employees as well as our customers that the right thing to do was to temporarily close our shops. it was a very tough day for us, but fortunately we have an online business as well that continues to support us through the sale of coffee beans and merchandise and our employees, and excited to bring back to work, back on the payroll so they can help with writing handwritten notes that are included with each order that we ship. >> sandra: we will see whether or not there will be for more funding for small businesses. so many have responded to. we are from the big banks as well as the smaller ones that they are getting an unbelievable amount of requests because so

many of our small businesses have been hurt through this. it's a great story and while you were talking we shared pictures of your employees there in your shops and i'm sure they are going to be thrilled with this announcement when you make it this afternoon. congratulations to you and we will follow up and see how you guys are doing. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> ed: good stuff there. fox news alert, president trump slamming the world health organization for its response to the crisis as congress considers a stimulus bill. the latest from washington at the top of the hour. >> president trump: if one person dies, it's a painful week. and we know that will unfortunately have been. newday'e this is a monster we are fighting. no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call could save you $2000 a year.

>> ed: a fox news alert, right now we are waiting for a virtual news conference with the world health organization as the unc agency faces fire from the earlier days in the pandemic with a lot of outbreak was largely confined to china. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom, i'm ed henry. good morning sandra. >> sandra: good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith. president trump is now threatening to freeze funding for the w.h.o. accusing the group of pro-china by us. i made early evidence of human to human transmission. the president talked to hannity last night. here's what he had to say. >> president trump: they called it wrong. at the could of called up months earlier. they would have known. and they should have known. so we will be looking into that very carefully.

and we will put a hold on money spent to the w.h.o. >> sandra: went fox team coverage for you this morning, jonathan serrie is just ahead with an overview of the cases we are seeing across the country and around the world. but for us to come out to to a kristin fisher. >> there was a little bit of confusion about whether or not president trump was just considering this or if he was actually doing it. in that briefing he later clarified that he was looking at considering potentially freezing all u.s. funding to the world health organization. in this very similar to some of his frustrations with nato. he doesn't like the united states continues to play pay the lion share of funding for this organization. just take a look at some of these numbers. over the last two years the u.s. contributed nearly $900 million almost double the second largest

contribution while china contributed around 60 million. the president is accusing the world health organization of being to china centric. at that briefing yesterday was asked what exactly he meant by that. is what he said. >> president trump: i don't know, it seems to come down on the side of china. i don't close your borders to china, don't report what's really going on. they didn't see it and yet they were there. they didn't see what was going on in wuhan, they didn't see it. how do you not see it? they didn't see it. they didn't report it. >> world health organization's denying this morning that the body was china centric and saying we are still in the acute phase of a pandemic so now is not the time to cut back on funding. republican senator lindsey graham said he's going to go ahead and take the burden of this decision off of the president's shoulders. >> of the next appropriations bill there is not going to be any money for the w.h.o. i am in charge of the

appropriations subcommittee and i'm not going to support funding the w.h.o. under its current leadership. >> that leadership holding a news conference this hour and it will be fascinating to hear what exactly they say and how they respond to the president's accusations. sandra? >> sandra: kristin fisher at the white house for us this morning, thank you. >> ed: for more on this, let's bring in steve hilton composed of a "of the next revolution. good morning and i hope you are doing well. let's pick up right there on the world health organization. we asked dr. fauci about it a few moments ago, whether he supports the president's idea of freezing the money. dr. fauci didn't want any part of that and he someone has been supportive of the world health organization but the president may have a point here that we are giving all this u.s. taxpayer money. can we really trust the world health organization when we are funding them? >> he's completely right and and

so many other areas where he is called out these other global organizations that for years got by without any kind of scrutiny because they seem to have the word world and their title which meant that they were fine. they were a good thing. the world trade organization is another one. the president is focusing on the details. who runs these organizations and most importantly what do they do? in the case of this terrible pandemic that has swept the world is quite clear to see that they colluded with china in order to downplay the virus. remember they put out information saying there was no human to human transmission and it's completely correct, as others have pointed out, huge portions of the impact both health and economic which could have been avoided if the world health organization had done its job properly. so i think putting pressure on them to change using the financial leverage president trump is talking about is totally appropriate.

>> ed: the president present want some accountability from the world health organization and also wants a balance between a health crisis and economic crisis. you've written about this and he said it's totally wrong for anyone to dismiss or minimize the pain and suffering from the coronavirus pandemic or to ignore the federal and state guidelines. but it's just as wrong to dismiss or minimize the pain and suffering from the coronavirus shutdown. this has been a very touchy subject. if you have some of the president's critics saying if you even raise the prospect of opening up the economy, somehow you're being insensitive. the president is trying to find a balance here. where is that balance? >> i think this is something we got to focus on not just as some kind of choice between the economy and public health, between saving lives and saving jobs or money for the stock market or whatever, it's all the same thing. and that's why i think it's a mistake to think that we needed to continue with our plan to fight the virus and in parallel develop a plan to open up the

economy. what we need is an antivirus plan that is more sustainable because continuing down this path is not sustainable. there's a huge public health impact of the shutdown. lives will be lost. the people are thrown into poverty and long-term employment that will reduce their life expectancy. studies have shown that living in poverty reduces your life expectancy by ten years and so the idea that there is no health impact from the shutdown is simply not correct. what i'm working on with a group of epidemiologists from stanford university near where i live in california is a better antivirus plan that enables us to open up the economy more quickly than anyone is talking about. and we will be sharing that with our audience this sunday on the next revolution. >> ed: that's a perfect set up for your program this weekend. in the meantime about the president was on with our colleagues sean hannity last night and he talked about a couple of different paths he may take.

>> president trump: i would love to open with a big bang. but it's very possible. we are looking at two concepts, we are looking at the concept we open up sections and we are also looking at the concept where you open up everything. i think new york is getting ready, if not already, but getting ready to peak. once it peaks it will start coming down and then it will come down fast. >> ed: maybe i will take a little run at pulling some of your plan out. and not every city is in the same shape right now. >> that's certainly true, and that's very in accurate data. every community in every part of the country. you actually got the virus and

crucially, we need more information about precisely what's most vulnerable. how exactly does disease spread and how we can protect those who are seriously risk. so that's what people are needing to do more that protect those who are really vulnerable and at the same time we will be able to open up everywhere. that's the approach that we need to seriously protect those who are most vulnerable. our data isn't good enough to do that. >> ed: in the last minute we have, we noted up at the top that you are an advisor to the previous prime minister. the current minister is currently in intensive care.

and this is hitting the united kingdom hard. >> yes. it's still there and it's not getting any better. there's a lot of anxiety in the u.k. and again, you have this emergencemerging anxiety about t of a shutdown. saying at the end of last week we painted ourselves into a corner with a lock down because actually he was saying that the cure could be worse than the disease. >> ed: the president of the united states has said he is offering medical and doing all we can. i tried my hardest to get the plan out of you steve. we all have to watch sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern as we

always do. thanks for coming in. >> sandra: meanwhile, we have some new numbers now on the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. is now on the verge of surpassing 400,000 cases, and the virus has killed nearly 13,000 people. here is dr. anthony fauci. he joined us last hour on "america's newsroom." >> the number of deaths on a given day continue to increase. you know at the same time seemingly paradoxically but not we are saying we starting to see some glimmers of hope because the deaths generally lag by a couple of weeks behind what's fueling the outbreak, namely the number of new cases and the number of hospitalizations. as we get further on, beyond this week, we should start to see the beginning of a turnaround. >> sandra: that was dr. fauci joining us earlier. jonathan serrie is joining us our the cdc is based.

>> good morning. at that sound bite was dr. fauci has been interesting because that's keeping with what some of the governors are beginning to say. despite the growing numbers we are hearing about there are early signs of hope. at that includes the city of new orleans where efforts by government, hospitals and everyday citizens are helping to alleviate a severe shortage of medical equipment. take a listen. >> are modeling right now based on what we think we are, we don't believe in the next ten days or two weeks we will be short ventilators because that means if we are correct that people won't die because they can't get on the ventilator. and last week i had the exact opposite concern. >> for starting this friday los angeles will require essential businesses to provide their employees with face coverings or reimburse them the cost of buying their own. the city will also require customers to cover their mouths and noses or they can refuse service. the cdc and other health

officials are considering new guidelines on how workers in medical, food service and other critical industries can return to their jobs in cases where they've been near an infected person without protection but haven't gotten sick. >> you shouldn't be within 6 feet of people right now but if you are in a work situation where you have to be there will be a series of recommendations that, if you had a significant exposure, what specifically to do. if you had a lesser exposure, what to do. >> back when it was spreading in wuhan, china, covid-19 may have been twice as infectious as originally thought. this is a study published in the cdc is emerging infectious diseases journal. researchers now believe cases they were doubling every 2.3-3.3 days and without intervention, an infected individual was likely to pass the disease on to an average of 5.7 other people. of course, social distancing can

bring those numbers down. sandra and ed back to you. >> sandra: all right, jonathan serrie outside of the cdc for us. >> ed: congress is pushing for more aid for small businesses. can congress reach a deal to up the backbone of the american economy? the governor of colorado away and on that next. plus, nfl quarterback jameis winston teaming up with doctors on the pandemic. in this teenager may not have his driver's license yet but that's not stopping him from taking to the air on incredible medical mission of mercy. details on how he is making a big difference, that's coming up. >> i talked to my dad about ways to fly and we came up with the operation sos meaning supplies over the skies

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>> ed: a 16-year-old marilyn high school student is taking to the skies to help small rural hospitals that desperately need surprised. march 27th 2 at 25 bed hospital in new by virginia. his goal is to make deliveries to seven rural hospitals.

>> in my stage of training we are doing what's called a cross country flights which mean doing fights over 50 miles so that worked out perfectly for this trip. so we are doing down to rural hospitals that are 50 miles away along the interstate 81 corridor because those are hospitals that are really hurting. >> edhe says he hopes to attenda military academy and eventually become a military pilot. >> sandra: fox news alert with an update on the coronavirus. numbers in colorado, more than 5400 cases in that state. and at least 179 deaths. the national model predicting that the outbreak has peaked there but state officials are warning that the worst may big yet to come. joining us now as senator cory gardner. thank you for being here. can you give us an update on your state and how it's doing this morning? >> absolutely. the model shows colorado's peak day being behind us and doesn't contain much of the data that

colorado has. in fact there are some flat out errors in that model. i've already been in the contact with the governor this morning over text and the bottom line is we believe colorado search is apt to come and that's what we are preparing for. that's why it's so necessary that we continue to fight for that protective equipment and ventilator so we so desperately needed. >> sandra: i know there's been an exchange between the president and you this morning, the president sent out a tweet some time ago that per your request he's innately sending 100 ventilators to your state. he responded to, a big thank you to the president for that and assistance from the national guard. so, first to the medical supplies. are you short on supplies? why was the request in for the ventilators? >> we have a request in for ventilators under than anticipated search under the model that colorado is using. the governor has been searching for ventilators and fema has also been searching for ventilators. i talked to the president last night about the colorado need for ventilators and i'm thankful

he provided that last night. we will continue to work with the president for more and continue to meet colorado's needs but it's just a sign that we are fighting for colorado and signing standing up for all of our states in this covid-19 response. >> sandra: you are also looking at the economic side of this. where to go stand on secretary munition now calling for potentially more funding, another round of it at least, for our small businesses to make sure that they can keep their workers employed? >> i think that's one of the most important aspect of the carriers act. nearly 200,000 loans have been issued and over $30 billion worth of loans approved. that's putting over a million people back onto or keeping them on payroll. this is incredibly important so i support putting whatever is necessary and its funds to keep our economy moving and keep people on payroll, and to make sure that colorado region may remain strong. i did a town hall where i spoke

to a gentleman named jean from colorado springs. he worked in a business with 16 employees and 15 of them have been laid off and he was wondering about unemployment insurance. i said yes, that's probably an option but what about having your employer going to the paycheck protection program where you can get a loan and keep everyone on payroll? this will make a huge difference, this will be something that really makes a difference when this economy can snap back after the covid-19 emergency is over. >> sandra: secretary mnuchin put a number to that, he's asking for another 250 billion for the small businesses. do you believe that is enough, too much, where you stand on that number? >> i believe that number will be whatever we need to make that number to make the needs of the people. we want to keep people on payroll and make sure we have people with their employer. so they know how they have a job on the other side of this, so they can keep getting your health insurance through their business. so that business actually has

the skilled workforce that they meet as they get through this. we are going to get through this, we will get through this together. a small business paycheck protection program is one of the key is to make sure that we emerge from this only the side with the ability to get back to that strong economy we had going into this. >> sandra: while you've been talking we've been showing some of those shuttered businesses, obviously your state is dealing with us. how are people doing in your state as far as lockdown is concerned, staying home and social distancing? obviously colorado is being talked about, and dr. birx talked about it this weekend is being out hot spot. i'm considering perhaps you haven't seen the numbers we've seen in new york are the residents of your state buckling down it's doing what's necessary to stop the spread of the virus there? >> they really are. we get more days of sunshine than any other state in the country an yesterday was an absolutely beautiful day. you saw people outside but you

saw people obeying the social distancing and following guidance, wearing masks and you saw people that are still safe self isolating and sheltering in place as has been required by their mirror or ice, cost of them by the president. i think colorado is standing together on this. we have anita coming in colorado that we are preparing for which is why am so grateful for the ventilators. we will continue to fight for more about that is a great example of why we need to continue to be vigilant in this effort. in a lot of our first cases started in the western slope of colorado, our rural mountain towns because we have a lot of foreign and international visitors coming in. they were starting initial phases of it and then it went to the front range of colorado. so we've had some unique differences and challenges and where we have started this covid-19 experience in colorado. but we are coming together and standing together and it's all hands on deck right now. >> sandra: all hands on deck. i know as a result of what you

just described, some of those small tourist towns asked visitors to stop coming in to stop the spread of the virus. we would love to catch up with you and show you how your state is doing in the coming weeks and days. thanks for coming on. >> ed: a fox news alert, new york sing a big jump still in covid-19 deaths and a new wave cases as expected. so how are hospitals preparing for all this and how are they coping witshortages of medical ? we will take you inside of that, next

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so why can't congress just vote from home? chad pergram has the answer and he joins us now live with the latest. >> there is talk about trying to censor some kind of remote voting system called the cyber congress but they are a long way away from actually producing a hologram princess leia style where they actually speak and debate from the house chamber with a hologram. that won't happen anytime soon. the issue as you say is a constitution in the house and senate rules require you to have quorum. plus article one of the constitution is littered with language talking about meetings and attendance and an assembling and that's a problem if you are going to try to do things remotely. house speaker nancy pelosi asked the rules committee chairman gemma garvin to put together a report on the pros and cons of remote voting. is what the report says. you have to find a way to quickly respond to the massive problems we face which may mean

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>> ed: andrew cuomo yesterday talked about the biggest jump in coronavirus deaths in the state since the outbreak began a few months ago. this comes as a number of icu admissions declined. we are still expecting a wave of cases in the next few weeks let's bring in a visiting fellow at the end of the net women's forum and a pulmonologist who is treating covid-19 patients right now in a new york city icu. doctor, thanks for being on. >> thank you for having me. >> all the doctors and nurses and medical workers, not just hear that around the country who are battling this virus, what are you seeing on the ground? >> i am at nassau county at nyu and we are seeing a tremendous demand for critical care beds. we have an overwhelming number of critical care patients which

we have been able to accommodate. a normal volume of critically ill patients has created more than tripled and is still rising. we are entering the beginning of the peak we believe but we have been very well provided for with additional equipment and we have seen many mechanical ventilators and i think part of that is the supply chain and part of that is the governor of new york who has been incredible as collaboration with the president. every patient that is quickly bill gets the right level of care and has the right devices and the right amount of supervision. i left the field of critical care medicine and came back ten years ago to's assessed and there are lots of doctors doing it's affecting people of all age groups including people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 70s.

we have the techniques and have the skills and have the expertise. we just hope that we can sustain the manpower and of the physical space to accommodate them which we have done very well with. >> ed: so you feel like you're getting largely what you need to. no situation is perfect but you are getting what you need. talked about the heartbreak of losing patience and listening in on conversations where nurses and doctors are calling loved ones who can't come see people who have covid-19 and are slipping away. talk about that. >> it's very tough on the patients to be ill with us, without any loved ones. and it's very tough on the families who never really be able to see them after they come to hospitals and that's heartbreaking. it's very difficult for us as

physicians. we are still supported by family members normally and especially when matters are taking a difficult course or we have frightening developments or we may be in a position where we know the patient may not survive. unfortunately all of my patients have survived. and very supportive of the physicians, medical team at hospitals. sometimes three times a day depending on what's going on. this is a new phenomenon for us and this burden is, people are talking about everything the health care system is doing which is tremendous and the real burden is on the family of people who are not well and who are sitting in the hospital. that is of course, we don't want to spread infection but it's very tough on them.

>> ed: if you right in this piece that they are the unsung heroes, these families. and we know we are on long island, the more covere patients -- along with other signs and pieces of data we are getting from governor cuomo. talk about that balance where you are seeing heart ache, still sing a lot of patients coming in but there are some data points that are suggesting that we might be reaching -- >> yes. that includes ill patients that are actually getting better and that did happen within the last week so people have been gravely ill and are getting better and getting off of ventilators. of course i do not see the other patients that are elsewhere in

the hospital but i do know they are getting treated and getting better so that's tremendous. and guess. i think the major thing is not just what our administration and institutions and our leaders state but also the incredible faith that family members are putting in us as the doctors and health care system is also empowering us. it supports us at this very difficult time and it supports their family members and that's really tremendous and it's not something i have seen to this degree ever before in almost 30 years of medicine. people are getting better and they are getting better from even very life-threatening disease on many occasions. not all, we don't underestimate the disease, but there is progress. >> ed: there is a lot of death and a lot of heart weight comic heartache but there's also a lot of progress. dr. auch meda, you and others are doing heroic work. we appreciate you joining us and we appreciate your heroic work.

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>> sandra: a fox news alert from wall street. stocks are up in early trading, resuming their rally for monday. we saw that big rally monday, a breather yesterday and here we are with the triple digit gain, 20200812. that dow has come up from that, remember initially in the middle of all this dipping below 20,000. one piece of news that the market seems to be responding to this morning as an interview we started this program with at 9:00 a.m. with dr. fauci, the head of infectious disease in this country saying that the virus turnaround, we could see a turnaround in the virus likely after this week. he talked about the number of deaths being up but that's a lagging indicator. the number of hospitalizations in new york is down. we heard that from the governor of new york, andrew cuomo yesterday. so markets have a lot to take in here and they are digesting all of that. >> ed: and a bit of news from dr. fauci as well is when he

told both of us, he was at the white house long after that briefing that the white house saw and the public saw. he was in the roosevelt room just across from the oval office eating with top white house officials late into the night, he said about the subject we pressed him on which is, when do you start opening up pieces of the economy? we know this is a rolling conversation but he specified that given this new data that's pouring in their is a light at the end of the tunnel. he was careful to say don't take your foot off the accelerator, but he seems to be pointing dr. fauci in this interview this morning to the idea that things are a little bit better-than-expected and they are having serious conversations about the white house about starting to open more things up. >> sandra: fair enough. but he did agree with dr. birx talking about new hot spots that could open up in pennsylvania. and then some of those cities along the west coast which would

still be of concern. dr. fauci making it clear that while we might be turning a corner this is not the time to stop or even less and up on social distancing. but to your point that will become a big question. what are the parameters or the guidelines that dr. fauci and other members of the task team are going to give the president for eventually reopening the economy? >> ed: and there is a repeating pressure. there is a pressure on the health crisis, but then there's the pressure of the small businesses as they go under. i got a call after the show yesterday from a really good friend who runs a hotel group and he oversees hotels all around the country's. little franchises here and there. he said he was on a conference call yesterday and he had people who were literally crying who owned a small hotel saying they are laying off housekeepers because they think yes, pieces of the stingless package are working but others, hotel operators are on the phone all day trying to get through and

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>> sandra: twitter ceo and founder jack dorsey announcing he is donating $1 billion of his equity in his financial services companies squared to us about st covid-19 efforts. the billionaire making the announcement on twitter and a series of posts outlining where the money, more than a quarter of his wealth, it will go. dorothy said he pledged the money because the needs are increasingly urgent and he wants to see the impact in his lifetime. >> ed: that's very cool. meanwhile nfl quarterback jameis winston doing his part to help. winston has partnered with a world-renowned physician to create a toll-free hotline to help answer peoples questions or concerns about the coronavirus. guess what, joining us now is

jameis winston right there on the left along with doctors scott kelly who i think just got out of the operating room. gentlemen, thanks for coming in. dr. kelly, i want to think witht with you as a physician in terms of what you're icing on the ground and what you think about you and jameis partnering to help people. >> i will tell you, it's really just an honor to be involved with anything that jameis winston does. he's such a wonderful person, a great guy that just wants to help people. and i thought, people are scared of. and he said the same thing to me and we thought about how we can best help people get information through this hotline that we have put up. what it does is it walks people through a symptom checker backed by the cdc and it allows them then to figure out what the best course of action would be for them and ultimately if they still want to talk to the doctor we can arrange that at no out-of-pocket cost to them and no co-pay.

i think it's a no-brainer. it keeps people out of the emergency room and it frees up our resources so that we can take care of sick people. so i think it's something that america needs right now. >> ed: absolutely. jameis, president trump said last night that he and dr. fauci and others are very concerned as well about the early data that is coming in that suggest african-americans are getting hit a lot harder by the virus. talk about that aspect as well. >> will first of all, i'm grateful to have this opportunity to be able to speak about how the african-american community has been affected by this. i know personally just where i am from in alabama, in jefferson county, they have completely shut down the county because of the spread of the coronavirus and i just really believe it's because of the resources that they lack. whether it's the local hospitals or different machines. that's why i wanted to team up

with dr. kelly and put this hotline out there to give people the luxury of just making a call from their own home and being safe and helping prevent any spread of this outrageous virus. >> ed: destruction and it's impacting people in smaller ways as well, like yourself. you just got men that mike married as i understand it a few days ago. thankfully their wedding move forward but it had to be a little scaled back. tell us about the social distancing. from what i saw up from the minister or the people are married you, and tell us about your bride. >> my bride is an amazing woman. she's been with me since my junior year of high school so she's my high school sweetheart. the main thing was having limited guests. we stood 3 feet apart from each other and our ministers stood right behind us but we were in

the pool and to my knowledge chlorine does help prevent the spread of coronavirus. so it was an amazing event. it's not really about me, but it's about these americans here that have the opportunity to get served by this hotline and ease of access from their own home. >> ed: so jameis, i don't want to upset you because number one you are a lot bigger than i am, but i have to ask about this guy. i think it's tom brady or something like that, i think he might be quarterback of the tampa bay buccaneers. maybe comment on that, but a lot of people are wondering where you will end up for next year? jamei>> one thing you will learn about me as i have tremendous faith. one thing about tom brady is, for you to get replaced by tom brady, in a city you love so much, that's kudos to me.

i'm excited for whatever opportunity may hold to. and eventually i will have to play the tom brady's and the patrick my homes and all the great quarterbacks potentially. that's how you win super bowls on that's want. >> ed: when i tried to get you on the show yesterday, your p.r. person told me that you work out from eight until noon. so he took a timeout for us but he's working very hard. gentlemen, you are doing great work. thanks for coming in. >> sandra: fox news alert, we will be hearing from the new york governor andrew cuomo we expect sometime next hour. this update coming up to the state suffered operative single largest increase in coronavirus staffs. we await that, we will be right back. with their va streamline refi, there's no income verification or home appraisal. and this refi costs you absolutely nothing out of pocket. it's the quickest and easiest refi newday has ever offered.

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of respiratory diseases. visit cdc.gov/covid19. brought to you by the national association of broadcasters and this station. >> ed: a fox news alert from albany, new york, where we are waiting for an update from andrew cuomo where the states he its deadliest day yet in this pandemic. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i met henry. good morning again sandra. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. nearly 400,000 people are infected in the united states on the number of deaths approaching 13,000. dr. fauci is now saying that strategies to curb the virus could be working. >> it's going to be a bad week for deaths but driving that and ahead of that is a fact that we are going to start to see the beginning of a turnaround. so we need to keep pushing on the mitigation strategy because there is no doubt that that is

having a positive impact on the dynamics of the outbreak. >> ed: a big interview with dr. fauci, and we have fox team coverage. the president slamming the world health organization and stop threatening to hold that funding. but we begin with david lee miller whose life at mount sinai hospital. >> good morning ed. mayor de blasio is saying that social distancing as well as other measures are making a significant difference in the battle against the coronavirus and he is urging new yorkers not to become placement. in his daily briefing the mayor said the number of hospitalizations in the city is stabilizing. he said last week the need for ventilators increased at a rate of 2-300 per day. this weak demand has slowed, increasing by only 100 ventilators per day or even less. mayor de blasio's of the city has 135 ventilators in reserve but for now, there are enough of

the life-saving machines available. >> for the first time in a while i can say with assurance that we will get through this week in terms of ventilators. we actually have enough to get through this week free and clear. we are not going to say that we can accurately predict next week yet, still too early this week to say that. but the fact that we have confidence we can get through this week is definitely a good sign. >> there mayor also says millions of gloves, masks and of the personal protection equipment is being delivered to hospitals but he's asking the government to fulfill a shortfall of surgical gowns. is significant number of cops and firefighters who tested positive have not returned to work and according to preliminary statistics the virus has caused a disproportionate number of deaths between black and hispanic workers. the mayor blamed economic equality and access to

health care. overall, he says the city is making progress against a virus and he urges new yorkers to continue what they have been doing to reduce the spread. lastly, more new yorkers have now died from the virus then during 9/11. but just like 9/11 there is a sense of togetherness and kindness in the city and even though it has now been washed away, take a look at the sidewalk outside of the mount sinai hospital yesterday afternoon. it was turned into an urban thank you card to health care workers. throughout the city there are countless examples of people coming together proving once again that new yorkers are tough they also have very big hearts. back to you. >> ed: absolutely. sandra? >> sandra: the world health organization meanwhile holding a news conference right now, one day after president trump criticized the organization and threatened to withhold funding. >> president trump: they called it wrong. they call it wrong.

they missed the calls. they could've called it months earlier, they would have known. they should have known. they probably did know. >> sandra: gillian turner is live at the white house with the latest on all of that. hey, jillian. good morning. >> good morning sandra. the w.h.o. is now facing mounting criticism from president trump for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. president trump saying really the organization has spent a lot of time over the last few weeks of turning a blind eye as china's government has underreported true numbers of cases coming out of wuhan and around the country. a report last week allegedly lays out what they are calling the chinese governmen cover-up l numbers. listen to president trump. >> president trump: i think every step they made it, everything they said was wrong and always in favor of china. keep it open. don't close the borders.

now i didn't listen to them and i did what i wanted to do. >> now in particular the president is laser ring in on the w.h.o. director general, dr. tedros who he says is responsible for bad decisions that have cost china lives. >> president trump: they seem to be very china centric and we have to look into that. so we are going to look into it. >> but the united nations, the w.h.o.'s parent organization is jumping to dr. and tedros' defense. >> w.h.o. under the direction of dr. tedros has done tremendous work with millions of pieces of equipment being shipped out, on helping countries and providing global guidelines. >> now president trump is considering cutting funding to the w.h.o. this year u.s. contributions

totaled $122 million, more than any other nation but now the president is proposing cutting that by over 50%, getting down to $58 million next year in 2021. president trump's criticism of the w.h.o. is backed by some key republican lawmakers here including senator's at lindsey graham and marco rubio. but dr. anthony fauci in recent days has also come to dr. tedros' in the w.h.o.'s defense. he says they are doing a good job. >> sandra: he didn't weigh in this morning, we had them at the top of the 9:00 hour. >> ed: for more on this let's bring in bret baier, anchor of "special report." good morning. you can see this debate playing outcome of the president during a program last night was laying this out. the suggestion that he wants of responding in the world health organization. his critics will say, now is not the time to affect this money when we have a fear that the coronavirus could come back down the road even as it's starting to wane a little bit now.

on the other hand, our viewers, a lot of people around the country are struggling economically and we have given the world health organization millions and millions of dolla dollars. >> yes. the president clarified he was pressed by reporters saying is that the right time right now to suspend funding for the w.h.o. and he said i would didn't say i was going to do it, i said i was considering doing it. and this is kind of the m.o. that the president used with nato saying maybe we should cut back funding for nato if all of these countries don't pony up with their defense funding. so he's holding it out there is a possibility. the u.s. is the number one funder for the w.h.o. and saying the way it operates needs to change. he has some criticism that he makes a vocal about the being china centric and kind of thing again some of the early moves the u.s. made especially closing the borders. but whether it comes to pass i think the president has made a

full decision yet. >> ed: it to her point on data which is a great one, in the end a lot of our allies ended up ponying up a lot more money because of that pressure from the president. a much bigger sum of money obviously, the $2 trillion from the third tranche of stimulus basically. now, we are talking about the possibility of a fourth stimulus bill. as a speaker last night on cnn and i will give you a chance to react. >> we evaluate as we go along but it was clear even as we passed the last bill that it would not be enough. it would not be enough for our states and municipalities, for hospitals and other health serving institutions. >> ed: so you have some democrats saying basically we need more money now and we had eugene scalia the labor secretary on yesterday and he said look. we barely spent the money from the third tranche. there seems to be a feeling among some republicans that maybe we have to let this play out a little bit more before you rush to spend. where do you think this comes

down? >> it's usually republicans and democrats can get their head around spending more. they usually don't have a problem getting to that point. so if i had to bet i would think another bill is in the works. even just this week and increase to the small business loan is likely going to pass with a voice vote. but you are talking about the bigger one which is possibly more than $1 trillion. at the democrats had a conference call with janet yellen, the former federal reserve chair who estimated that the unemployment rate was about 13% or higher and said some of these municipalities need help directly, probably another round of direct payments to americans and more money for small businesses. i don't think we have our head around how big this is for the u.s. economy yet. >> ed: absolutely. that leads us to the question of the president trying to decide when do you start opening up

pieces of this economy? sandra and i were talking at the top of the show with dr. fauci and he said he was at the roosevelt room late last night talking to white house officials on this question. we went through the models and he acknowledged that the university of washington model, i got it here, as changed dramatically in the last week. it's gone from predicting 94,000 deaths to 82,000 and now down to 60,000. this model is changing. still a lot of people, still very tragic. it's horrible and awful but dr. fauci acknowledge this model is changing rapidly. >> i think this is a major part of the story, ada. these models, remember, are dictating policy. they are numbers. i love the way that dr. fauci talked about it, and to your questioning, they are only as good as what goes into the models. the problem is that even the best case scenarios and some of these models are now way higher than where they are now. now people will say that's because mitigation is going so well.

okay, we can analyze that when it comes to pass but this moment to go from where we are now to restarting the economy is really the big challenge for this administration going forward and how it goes really well me and whether small businesses or some americans can get through month to month environment. >> ed: absolutely. we will be watching you tonight as every night and in the meantime we wish you and your family well. sandra? >> sandra: as we all have noticed, more people are wearing face masks as covid-19 cases increased by the day. but now the world health organization's warning that masts may not protect healthy people from contracting the virus. dr. nicole saphier will join us to explain just that. and to discuss other ways that we can all say and stay safe. plus the acting navy secretary is stepping down after criticizing the ousted commander

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>> one of the original models projected a 100-200000 deaths as we are getting more data and seeing the positive effect of medication. at those numbers are going to be downgraded. i don't know exactly what the numbers are going to be but right now it looks like it's going to be less than the original projection. >> sandra: that was dr. anthony fauci on this program earlier with an optimistic tone as new data predicts far fewer deaths from the coronavirus than earlier models predicted. health officials are warning that everyone should remain vigilant. dr. nicole saphier is a fox news contributor and doctor, you know how important that messages, you shared with everyone every day.

>> that's absently right. it's very important to hear these models, and we have to remember the reason that we are going down is because of the things we are doing right now. if all of a sudden we stop these mitigation efforts the models will increase their numbers again so it's great that we hear that because we all need that glimmer of hope to know what we are doing is actually working. if we stop right now then those models will change again but for the worst. >> sandra: dr. fauci also said something very interesting. in an interview yesterday, sort of talking about what life will look like after we eventually get through all of this, in particular about handshakes. suggesting they should just go away. here's dr. fauci. i'm sorry, it's a quote. here it is. as a society he says, just forget about shaking hands. we don't need to shake hands. we have to break that custom.

for many of us, we can't even imagine that dr. safire because he said that's one of the ways that you can transmit a respiratory illness. but of course that's why we always have known that we have to wash our hands when we are engaging with other people. do you agree with that? should we stop shaking hands after all that? >> sandra, i'm raising three boys here and one of the things i talk to them about as a firm handshake and looking people in the eyes. i don't want to go to society where we stop shaking hands. what i want them to wash her hands mark, i want them to cough appropriately. we have now learned to cough this way. we are not toddlers, we need to have a little bit more control over how often we put our hands on her face. so by decreasing how many times we touch our face and by washing her hands mark, we need to be washing our hands a lot more and maybe at this point, people are going to do that.

maybe we are going to near 80% or 90%. it will be a much cleaner america. let's take these precautions so that we can continue to shake hands. this is like hugely important when it comes to its social interactions and i don't want to get to the place where we are doing high fives or elbow bumps. i like shaking hands but maybe i'm a little bit old-school. >> sandra: i completely understand, i have a 5-year-old son and i just got that into him. but i guess at the same time as parents we can also ingrain in their hands, wash your hands as much as possible and perhaps just be super vigilant after we get through all of this. i wanted to finish off with this question to you about the latest world health organization recommendation on face masks. they are now saying there is limited evidence that wearing a medical mask by healthy individuals in households or among contacts with the sick

patient or attendees of mass gatherings may be beneficial as a preventative measure. however there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask whether medical or other types by healthy persons in the wider community setting including universal community masking can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses. including covid-19. it seems a recommendation on this has been changing. where do you stand on whether or not you should be wearing face masks? >> you know that data, the academic research hasn't been changing. we know the general public wearing masks doesn't really do a lot in terms of changing whether or not someone is going to get back to themselves. what we do know is a come if you are wearing a mask and you are infected, you are symptomatic and you are coughing and sneezing that mask is keeping those respiratory droplets within the mask. the problem is, most people don't wear masks appropriately.

one of the things that with covid-19, the virus that causes this, we are tending to see people 25-50% of the time, there's a period where you are asymptomatic either before you get symptoms or you are asymptomatic entirely which is why the recommendations are changing saying, perhaps we should all just wear masks to limit that spread. the key is to make sure you are wearing those masks appropriately. most people just throw them on their face. they haven't pushed them down, there's not a good seal between the skin and the mask. the other thing is people tend to touch the mask after they are taking it on not realizing there's virus on the mask and now you've touched it and now you are going to go touch your face. we do that, we are human. that's the thought as to why they are not that helpful but with such an asymptomatic spread, the thought is to wear croc cloth masks. i don't think that we are going to be a nation that long term, we will see the general public wearing masks.

we are trying to get over the curves and we are already getting there in a lot of places. as the warmer months, we will continue to see decreased masks and now that people are washing their hands and maintaining some level of social distancing, i think people will be a lot more aware of their surroundings. the thing that i've been telling myself and my friends is just pretend that you have the virus and everyone else has a virus. if you think of yourself as infected and everyone around you infected as well, all of a sudden you will find yourselves not touching things as much, washing her hands more in keeping some distance. if you maintain that thought process you will keep yourself pretty safe. >> sandra: it something else that stuck with me that i produce a a few times in the past, you are big on that cross room ventilation. open your windows and let that air get into your house. great information dr. safire as always, thank you. >> thanks for having me on.

>> ed: the acting navy secretary has not resigned amid a growing backlash over his firing and subsequent scolding of the commander of the uss roosevelt captain brett crozier. jennifer griffin is live, and there has been a fair bit of drama over the last few days. >> good morning. it wasn't so much the profanity used by the acting navy secretary but his lack of judgment in handling the crisis for the navy. captain brett crozier, the former teddy roosevelt skipper now rests with the navy brass. mark esper accepted his resignation almost immediately after he returned from that ill-advised trip to the uss roosevelt in guam saying in a statement "he resigned on his own accord to putting the navy and sailors about self so that the uss theodore roosevelt. he addressed the crew who

cheered the skipper he fired last week. hundreds of crew members listened in disbelief as mostly attacked the press, cast dispersions on presidential candidate joe biden and captain crozier who wrote a letter we sent over an unclassified email system which leaks to his own hometown newspaper about the need to remove 90% of the crew in guam, many of whom have tested positive for covid-19. this is audio from his rant. >> it was my opinion that he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public and of the this information age that we live in, and he was being too negative or too stupid to be the commanding officer of a ship like this. >> he essentially resigned yesterday, bac back to your. >> ed: thank you. we got some breaking news. >> sandra: fox news alert here. we are now learning that bernie sanders has suspended his campaign for the presidency. this is just in.

he just held an all staff conference call. on that call he announced he is suspending his campaign for the presidency and we are also getting word that at about 11:45 a.m. eastern time this morning, about 20 minutes from now he's going to address supporters during the live stream. bernie sanders.com will carry lesser remarks. bernie sanders is suspending his campaign. >> ed: is only a few hundred delegates behind it joe biden but for both of them this entire campaign as obviously changed. he's focused on his job and you can't have large gathering of people. bernie sanders has been struggling to get some sort of ignition to get this going. number two, you have some states have delayed your primaries and trying to figure out what they are doing with voting, whether it's voting by mail. the rest of the entire campaign

has been a band-aid an upended s suspending it. maybe we will see where all of this is in a month or so. >> sandra: and certainly. and that was in a phone call with staffers, he will be addressing supporters here are a few moments from now. just think about what that message is going to be. when you saw the enthusiasm behind his campaign. what he will tell those supporters and where he will throw his support ultimately. >> ed: is a socialist democrat remember there was a point in this campaign were bernie sanders was surging. there were others in the so-called immoderate lane who were struggling to get traction. you and i were both on the ground in iowa and new hampshire and you remember how sanders was doing so well and you remember how back then joe biden was almost an afterthought. he couldn't get anything going in either iowa or new hampshire and to slowly but surely others

like kamala harris and other candidates were dropping out. joe biden started coming back and suddenly, governor sanders stalled. that happened before the coronavirus really picked up steam but the combination of sanders stalling on his own, biden surging at the coronavirus completely changing the nature of the entire presidential campaign. >> sandra: i was going to say, we flashed back to those on the ground and all of us covering these campaigns in iowa or new hampshire and other places, you could have never imagined we would be where we are today here in the beginning of april in an election year and dominating the news as pandemic that has taken over headlines across the globe. >> ed: doesn't feel like a year ago that we were in new hampshire together? it was genuinely a couple of months ago and everything has changed. >> sandra: yes. a lot of pain and suffering and you think about how the economy

is dominating the messaging. this combination today as a result of the pandemic. on that note we are expecting to hear from new york governor andrew cuomo. >> remember the rest of the field was cleared and there was going to be a one-on-one debate between joe biden and bernie sanders, and all of a sudden instead of being in arizona, they were with moderators 6 feet apart and all the rest, and no crowd. everything in this campaign has changed. let's go to our correspondent who has an covering all of this. peter, maybe not unexpected but there had been pressure on bernie sanders to suspend and he's finally doing that. >> it is unexpected for people who have been watching the campaign for a really long time

because we were with the senator sanders at the field of dreams in iowa in august and he was talking about how there were so many different candidates to start out that he didn't think anyone was going to get a clear majority by that convention. the way he looked at it, he might just stay in. and he has been pressuring sanders to stay in. that's a convention that will help shape the platform. remember senator sanders, many people thought he was going to get out in october when he was in las vegas campaigning and he had a heart attack but he it did not affect him. he was a popular vote winner in iowa, the clear winner in new hampshire and nevada. but then things kind of took a turn in south carolina and now he has the backing of the very influential next wave of the party in congress including

alexandria ocasio-cortez. mainstream democrats after sanders has really started succeeding, started to remind of primary voters sanders calls himself a democratic socialist as a poster just a democrat. they really started sounding alarm bells about the problems that would cause in a head-to-head match up with president trump. so senator sanders is dropping out, or rather suspending his campaign. at something else that's interesting about this, he has 303 delegates behind joe biden right now before the wisconsin results will be tallied. but even though he and the ballot in wisconsin, joe biden said he has called bernie sanders to say we would love to have you as part of the journey with me but not as a vice presidential candidate. now we will go ahead and start looking with the vice president and running mate even if you are in the race or not.

so biden was signaling to sanders privately that he was ready to move on and now apparently sanders is, too. >> ed: if you can see on our screen in addition to you, a moment ago we were seeing a showing a live feed of his website. you see right there, approximately 11:45 a.m. eastern time. take a step back from this development. it's interesting that as you see he is suspending, not officially dropping out in the sense that if things were to change with joe biden, if all of a sudden there were things contested at the convention he could on suspend this campaign, number one. number two, it's got to be odd for you to cover this campaign. you have access and you were right up there asking questions of joe biden. he's off in delaware doing his news conferences every now and again which are virtual. and that you can't see them up

close anymore. >> it's a lot different because it was almost a year ago that he popped up at the train station in wilmington, delaware, for his first public appearance as a candidate. i was able to walk right up to him and ask him a question. and that extended all the way through until about a month ago when a candidate, especially biden, is very accessible. if you want to ask him about something, you can just walk right up. that's not the case anymore. the parent lee biden is isolated from his own family, and working from home for the last couple of weeks. as for sanders suspending as opposed to just dropping out, he again thinks -- or talks about how he thinks he is leading a

root political revolution and a movement as opposed to a campaign. there are millions of people who voted for bernie sanders because they want which are a lot more progressive. things like medicare for all and the green new deal. depending on how things shape out, if there is a convention ts that he has amassed. again as the winner of two of the last three contests. >> sandra: hey peter, it sanders and the breaking news that bernie sanders is officially suspending his campaign. he's tweeted that he is sharing with his supporters and message a short time from now. and we await that live stream from bernie sanders.com.

peter, if you could take us back through the campaign a little bit and show us the way he change the messaging on the campaign trail and pulled so much of that messaging for his fellow democrats so far to the left. you go back through the states and you go back through the month, leading up to now what has been this major interruption of all of this, the pandemic that we are seeing all across the globe. >> and sandra, he was able to do it with by far the most aggressive platform of any major political candidate in the last several cycles. thing is a really were on an upward trajectory for him until south carolina because bernie sanders had a weakness throughout the campaign. he was a really strong with young voters and he was really strong with hispanic voters and he was not as popular with african-american primary voters.

in the democratic primary states. that really hurt him in south carolina. where it looks like as of nevada he was on a path to cruise super tuesday and pick up a bunch of delegates and it may be put race out of breach for joe biden and everyone else who is filling in the race of the time of south carolina. south carolina really hurt bernie sanders and on super tuesday he was not the big winner that he was projected to be a a few days ago. we were with him in burlington, vermont, and he still managed to pack a few thousand people into a fairgrounds. there was music and a lot of excitement, a very young crowd. but again he was not able to turn the big crowds and the populist message into a delegate lead when things really started

accumulating about three or four weeks ago. >> sandra: peter doocy, if you could stand by on this breaking news with us, we want to bring in bret baier. any reaction to the word that bernie sanders has officially suspended his campaign and we expect to hear from them shortly. >> not surprising because obviously he was running out of road in this primary battle with joe biden. but it is a moment. he said he was going to fight on, and the path got narrow, probably too narrow. we realized that there really wasn't a way to make a stand just for his progressive principles. he did however in two runs for president drive the party, the democratic party further left. and on the number of positions that kind of fell in line with his thinking as opposed to the

more moderate parts of the democratic party. he changed the dynamic. the really energized some young progressive voters in that party and then the progression now is whether joe biden can hold onto that progressive groundswell that bernie sanders stood up. >> sandra: i'm looking onto the social media here because this is a platform in which bernie sanders is going to show this message. not to put you on the spot because this news just happened a few moments ago but have you seen or heard any reaction from the members of his own party or elsewhere? >> it's obviously just breaking and there is some stuff popping up on social media. however i think you started to see joe biden make efforts to reach out to the sanders folks, just a few weeks ago.

even in the past few days saying, is not going to be my vice president but he's going to be enter goal in the formulation of some policy ideas and i think one of the reasons that biden needs to do that is because that's about 15% of sanders supporters saying they would not support joe biden. that's a significant number if you look at that number, or they would stay home. i think the biden people will bend over backwards to try to get and praise of bernie sanders for the round that he made even though he was a thorn in their side all the way along. >> ed: what about the fact that you have some sanders supporters that say they will never vote for joe biden and then you have democrats saying -- doing these draft andrew cuomo because they are not completely settled on the

idea that he would take on president trump. so the significance of bernie sanders saying i would not drop out completely, i'm suspending, and then you can see how it plays out at the convention. >> i think the suspension of the campaign essentially means dropping out. i find it hard to believe he's going to push this weight all the way to the convention and like elizabeth warren may slow walk it but eventually will get behind joe biden. biden is the guy with the delegates and andrew cuomo is not running. so this is what the democrats have and i think they will rally their base and rally the horses to get behind biden. >> ed: absolutely. and peter doocy was talking about how it's not just a candidacy for sanders, it's a movement, it's a revolution. he wants at the very least to get out alive and this is

somebody that did far better than democratic leads expected into presidential runs, not just one. >> think about all the democratic policy is that changed over the evolution of bernie sanders from 2016 through 2020. think about health care, just health care alone. obamacare at the beginning of it, they were bending over backwards to say it was not a camel's nose under the tent towards a government run health care, or total health care for all back in those days. now the camel is fully under the tent, not just the nose. and they were 100% behind medicare for all in one shape or another. and joe biden evolved on that as well. his movement has changed policy wise in the democratic party.

>> sandra: you go back in the african-american vote, you go back to his messaging and health care and also his messaging with women voters and how he struggled there. >> he had some bumps in the road clearly, he could not get that coalition to expand. for all of the talk about how it was broadening out, and he was getting younger voters, remember in new hampshire the speech said this is the beginning and then you had nevada. it did look at some time like the democrats were going to really go with bernie sanders. but then south carolina happened and that was the turning point. and joe biden's kind of phoenix from the ashes in south carolina change the entire dynamic of the race. more than any other single political moment that we've seen in recent years. >> sandra: all right. bret baier will stand by with us and we will take a quick break.

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>> ed: a fox news alert. we've been staying on top of the pandemic and obviously andrew cuomo will be speaking in the noon hour, so look at that in noon eastern. the meantime bernie sanders has suspended his campaign and that's the breaking news this morning. we've been joined by bret baier. we will be going live to bernie sanders in a moment or so when he starts some sort of a special message online to his supporters but you pointed out that he has pulled the democratic party to the left given his two presidential runs that went a lot better than democratic leaders expected for bernie sanders. he certainly gave hillary clinton iran and he's given joe biden a run. it seems to me joe biden has a lot of work to do to bring along not just bernie sanders supporters but progressives who don't have a voice anymore

potentially in this campaign. >> i do think that's right and there will be an effort to reach out. we will start with the speech from senator sanders. remember, there was a lot of push and pull inside of the democratic party as he was front runner for some time. you looked at all the polls and the split in the party. that was still relevant as up until just weeks ago. and now joe biden has been cleared a path to the nomination and i think there will be a real effort to try to keep those progressives in an attempt and fired up. it's a totally different environment in this coronavirus in which we live when it comes to the election that how you get voters and what happens. i think it's uncharted territo

territory. >> sandra: you know, brett, we have this image up that lives bernie sanders.com is carrying. we got that up here because we are going to carry it on the fox news channel. countdown clock, and what do you expect his messaging to be on joe biden when we hear from bernie sanders moments from now? >> i think he will save that to the end. and that was one of the things that drew people to him, is that he was authentic and authentic progressive and socialist in many ways, but authentic. and fought those battles over really, 40 years.

the two runs, 2016 and 2020 were similar but 2020 was picking up more steam again until south carolina and joe biden's sentencing. >> sandra: all right. we await bernie sanders, and we announce on a conference call as we report when it happened to his staffers that would be suspending his cap campaign. bret baier is standing by with us. okay, brett is gone. so juan williams is joining us now. if you could respond, it looks like we have a few seconds before we hear from bernie sanders. >> i think it's hard to remember sondra but when bernie sanders started raising money for this campaign he just about broke the piggy bank. people were amazed because i think you raise $6 million in the first 24 hours and it was out of the remainder of of populism and bernie sanders as a

left-wing populace, some seeing him as the reflection on the left and president trump on the right. the money was coming from small donors. remember, even to this point it dwarfs what joe biden was raising from donors especially, though small donors. i think that was a key point of distinction for bernie sanders given his discontent with how the party had treated him in the 16 race against tiller clinton and even this time around always making the case of the system had been against him although the party of course had made changes in the way that it handled the delegates to accommodate bernie sanders. but the idea that he was running against the democratic establishment never faded and when he rose to the top in terms of the primary contest especially after the three races in iowa, new hampshire and nevada, wall street democrats were in open rebellion.

they couldn't believe the party was going to nominate bernie sanders, a socialist. no socialist has ever done as well as bernie sanders, i should say democratic socialists. but no democratic socialist has ever done as well in american history as bernie sanders stated in the 2020 election. the final hurdle for him was electability running against trump. was he the best candidate to go up against trump? someone who is going to be quickly labeled as a socialist? i think lots of moderate democrats, still the majority of the party but especially african-american democrats said, no way. they never got on the bernie bandwagon. >> ed: okay. we understand bernie sanders has started speaking about as i understand that the audio is not quite up yet. so you can see he's talking but they have to work out the kinks.

we don't want to go there live until we actually hear from him. this is somebody who is not going to win that democratic nomination, is acknowledging that today. but he has had a vast impact on the democratic party and their platform. >> sandra: let us know if we can get juan williams back on with us. this doesn't appear to be a technical difficulty. okay, now we can hear bernie sanders. >> i want to thank those who phone banked for our campaign and those who send out millions of texts. we sent out millions of americans who attended our rallies, town meetings and house parties. some of these had a few thousand people, somehow twoand some had a dozen.

i also want to thank our surrogates, there are too many to name. i can't imagine that any candidate had ever been blessed for for a more dedicated group of people who had taken our message to every part of this country. and i want to thank all of those who made the music and the arts and integral part of our campaign. i want to thank all of you who spoke to your friends and neighbors who posted on social media and worked as hard as she could to make this a better country. together, we are transformed american consciousness into what kind of nation we can be, and have taken this country a major step forward. and environmental justice. i also want to thank the many hundreds of people in our campaign staff. willing to move from one state to another and do all the work

that had to be done. no job is too big or too small for you. he rolled up your sleeves and you did it. these are at the core of the movement, not me, but us. i want to thank each and every one of you for what you've done. nelson mandela one of the great freedom fighters. it always seems impossible until it's done. and what he meant by that is the greatest obstacle to real social change has everything to do with the power of corporate and political establishment to limit our vision and what we are entitled to as human beings. we at we are entitled to as human rights we will never achieve universal health care. we are entitled to decent wages

and working conditions, millions of us will continue to live in poverty. and, we are required to fulfill our dreams. many of us leave school saddled with huge debt and never get the education we need. if we don't believe that we are entitled to live in a world that has a clean environment and is not ravaged by climate change, we will continue to see more drought and increasingly uninhabitable planets. if we don't believe that we are entitled to live in a world of justice, and we will continue to have massive wealth and inequality, hatred, mass incorporation, immigrants and hundreds of thousands of

americans sleeping out on the streets and the richest country on earth. and, focusing on that new vision for america is what our campaign has been about and what in fact we have accomplished. few would deny over the course of the past five years, our movement has been more than a mightily applicable struggle. we now understand that we must raise the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour. that we must guarantee, and we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and higher education must be available to all regardless of income. it was not long ago that people considered these ideas radical and french. today their mainstream ideas and out many of them are already being implanted in cities and

states across the country. that is what we have accomplished together. in terms of health care, even before this horrific pandemic we are now experiencing, more and more americans understood that we move to a medicare for all sinker payer programs during the primary elections, and exit polls showed in state after state that a strong majority of democratic primary voters supported a single government health insurance program to replace private insurance. that was true even in states where our campaign did not prevail. let me just say this. in terms of health care, but the current orphic crisis that we are now in has exposed for all to see how absurd our current

employer-based health insurance system is. the current economic downturn we are experiencing has not only lead to a massive loss of jobs, but also has resulted in millions of americans losing their health insurance. while americans have been told over and over again how wonderful our private insurance base is, these claims sound very holly l mike hollow today as a number of unemployed workers struggle with how they can afford to go to the doctor or not go bankrupt with a huge hospital bill. we have always believed that health care must be considered as a human right, not an employee benefit and we are right. please always appreciate that we are winning, not only winning the struggle ideologically but also generationally. the future of our country rests with young people. in state after state whether we will one or we lost the democratic primaries or caucuses, we received a

significant majority of the work votes, sometimes an overwhelming majority for people not only 30 years of age or younger but 50 years of age or younger. in other words the future of this country is with our ideas. as we are all painfully aware, we now face an unprecedented crisis. not only are we dealing with the coronavirus pandemic which is taking lives of many thousands of our people, we are also dealing with an economic meltdown that has resulted in the loss of millions of jobs. today families all across our country face financial hardship, unimaginable only a few months ago. many of our friends and neighbors have little or no savings and are desperately trying to pay their rent or

their >> this reality makes it clear to me that congress wants to address this unprecedented crisis in an unprecedented way that protects the health and economic well-being of the working families of our country, not just powerful special interests. as a member of the democratic leadership, and the united states senate, and as a senator from the state of vermont, this is something i intend to intensely be involved in over the next number of months. and that will require an enormous amount of work. which takes me to the state of our presidential campaign. i wish i could give you better news, but i think you know the truth, and that is that we are now 300 delegates behind vice presidentid